The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-09-14
REsTFULNEss OF FARM LIFE.
A PHYSICIANS COUNSEL AND wHAr CANE
OF IT IN PRACTICE

No. said the pale young man, sadly,
. I'm not working on a farm for my
health now"
/ . l. that so2"
Yes. | have come away, and the
/ farm which knew me would perhaps
Z know me vet If il could get sight Of me
but il can't
Il wen; out, you know, by the advice
! of physician. Said be. You need ont
I door exercise, and above all, sleep. such
long quiet nights. sleep as you can only
/ find in the country away from the noise
and heat of the city, with the great open
windows and the cool and yelvety breeze
floating through your room ali night
long. with an occasional night with the
pattering rain upon the roof to iull you 20
sleep That's what the doctor said.
30 | hired out TO farmer TO work all
summer. He said WAS 50 white and
pale that he couldn't give me anything
but my board for my services. but if /
wanted to work for that might climb in
behind the seat and ride out.
80 did He had one mule and one
horse, and the mule baked every time he
went up bill and the horse every time he
went down hill, and they both tired to
run away on the level, He drove them
with trace chain tied on white ash
axe helve.
But We got out there at last / don't
want 10 tell you anything about the work
today haven't time-but feel a. if
mus, say something about those long
nights sleep.
~The first night We got home late, but
still the sun was only nicely down The
sun sets about two hours later out there
than anywhere else in the known world
FIRST MILKING.
After supper the farmer spent one
hour and half telling me about the fax
crop on the back forty and then he reck-
oned We better milk. There were twelve
cows and he said he would take six. He
gave me the kickers, and it took me two
hours. and il had been dark long time
when finished Then he had me pump
up water for the next day And II took
forty minutes Then l filed the wood
box and split the kindling wood. And
as it was big box il took me thirty min
utes. Then he told me about the cat
crop. WHICH took an hour And when l
went to bed ii was growing light in the
East.
The window in the room was q pane Of
glass nailed over an irregular hole in the
boards and could not be opened, felt
around in the dim light and finally got
into bed. had just fallen asleep and
had begun to dream | was laying across
the ridge-pole ofa doubles bumped camel,
when the farmer pounded on the ladder
with an old broom stick and said break
fast was ready couldn't see that it was
any lighter than when | went 70 bed,
though the sky in the East was a little
redder
81 viii pass over the day. as it is pain
fuI to recall OR rather the day and the
last end of one. night and the first end Of
another, for We were in the bayfield, six
teen hours.
And that evening after supper he said
might throw some dirt ont of the new
cellar while rested
~Then we MIXED, and he gave me
eight cows instead of six-al kickers
And one Of them was hooker too. and
slammed me through the corn crib.
4 got to bed an hour sooner than the
night before, because he said he was
thinking some of getting up early the
next morning.
And that night it ained, and heard
the pleasant paster Of the rsin on the
roof that the old fraud q a doctor spoke
about. Bat il didn't hill me to sleep be-
cause il leaked down on me and got the
bed clothe- al vet and caught cold
And uhen the farmer pounded on
the ladder got up and looked At my
watch, and had just been abed an hour
and forty minutes. And my clothes Eere
wet and there was water in my shoes.
AGooD DAY.
But it was a good day and We worked
al the hay again We moved down what
the farmer called 'slather' Of H. And
that night after l had rested awhile on
the cellar and MIXED the twelve COWS
twelve kiekers-and one ofthem thought
was trying to kidnap her calf and ehas-
ed me oat Of the yard-the farmer said it
looked like rain again, and he reckoned
we'd better 90 out and cock up the hay
before bedtime
And before we got 20 the field / saw
the morning star, and when had got up
twelve punches of hay, and the old hyp-
Ocrite of a farmer four, / heard lark
Then when had up twenty-four bunch
- and the farmer six, il began to grow
quite light
When the farmer saw it he laid down
on the hay and laughed for ten minutes.
He said We had worked right through
the night without knoxing it,
But had known more about it than
he thought | had.
We worked an hour longer and then
we went to the house, and MIXED
Breakfast wasn't quite ready. and Threw
a couple Of cubic yards Of sand out OF the
tsotforu NJ the cellar
"And while We were eating the farmer
told me to hurry because he would ike
to get in full days work during haying.
said | would, too. and that ! would
stop and 90 out and harness the horses
And he said that was business, and i
went out and ran down the road and
walked into town.
And now ! am looking for that old
liar Of a physician and surgeon who told
me about the long nights sleep would
get on a farm r-D Dakaa Bel.
/ HAVE been for several years a sufferer
from hay fever, and severe head colds.
and have tried other remedies in hope of
getting relief but have found none that
can compare with Ely's Cream Balm. |
would not be without il for any consider
alton 1t is simply wonderful in its ef-
feet upon the nasal organs---S. l. Burt,
Wilmington, y. G.